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KNOUTED
Definition of KNOUTED
verb
simple past and past participle of knout
noun
A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
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Word DNA
KNOUTED inherits its ancestry from its root, KNOUT.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (776)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, KNOUT · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
KNOUTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
KNOUTED starts with K and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEKNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found KNOUTED?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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